CDP vs. NSA, ABR, NHI, BNL, SITC, HIW, LXP, OUT, DEI, and SKT
Should you be buying COPT Defense Properties stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of COPT Defense Properties include National Storage Affiliates Trust (NSA), Arbor Realty Trust (ABR), National Health Investors (NHI), Broadstone Net Lease (BNL), SITE Centers (SITC), Highwoods Properties (HIW), LXP Industrial Trust (LXP), OUTFRONT Media (OUT), Douglas Emmett (DEI), and Tanger (SKT). These companies are all part of the "real estate investment trusts" industry.
COPT Defense Properties (NYSE:CDP) and National Storage Affiliates Trust (NYSE:NSA) are both mid-cap finance companies, but which is the superior investment? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their analyst recommendations, dividends, profitability, earnings, institutional ownership, community ranking, media sentiment, valuation and risk.
COPT Defense Properties pays an annual dividend of $1.18 per share and has a dividend yield of 4.8%. National Storage Affiliates Trust pays an annual dividend of $2.24 per share and has a dividend yield of 6.0%. COPT Defense Properties pays out -109.3% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. National Storage Affiliates Trust pays out 117.3% of its earnings in the form of a dividend, suggesting it may not have sufficient earnings to cover its dividend payment in the future.
COPT Defense Properties presently has a consensus price target of $27.00, suggesting a potential upside of 8.74%. National Storage Affiliates Trust has a consensus price target of $36.44, suggesting a potential downside of 2.79%. Given COPT Defense Properties' stronger consensus rating and higher probable upside, equities research analysts plainly believe COPT Defense Properties is more favorable than National Storage Affiliates Trust.
National Storage Affiliates Trust received 265 more outperform votes than COPT Defense Properties when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 60.00% of users gave COPT Defense Properties an outperform vote while only 56.34% of users gave National Storage Affiliates Trust an outperform vote.
In the previous week, National Storage Affiliates Trust had 7 more articles in the media than COPT Defense Properties. MarketBeat recorded 7 mentions for National Storage Affiliates Trust and 0 mentions for COPT Defense Properties. National Storage Affiliates Trust's average media sentiment score of 1.01 beat COPT Defense Properties' score of 0.00 indicating that National Storage Affiliates Trust is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
National Storage Affiliates Trust has a net margin of 22.07% compared to COPT Defense Properties' net margin of -16.83%. National Storage Affiliates Trust's return on equity of 10.30% beat COPT Defense Properties' return on equity.
National Storage Affiliates Trust has higher revenue and earnings than COPT Defense Properties. COPT Defense Properties is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than National Storage Affiliates Trust, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
100.0% of National Storage Affiliates Trust shares are owned by institutional investors. 1.1% of COPT Defense Properties shares are owned by company insiders. Comparatively, 12.2% of National Storage Affiliates Trust shares are owned by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, hedge funds and large money managers believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.
COPT Defense Properties has a beta of 0.92, suggesting that its stock price is 8% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, National Storage Affiliates Trust has a beta of 0.87, suggesting that its stock price is 13% less volatile than the S&P 500.
Summary
National Storage Affiliates Trust beats COPT Defense Properties on 13 of the 20 factors compared between the two stocks.
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